- Published on July 8, 2021
- In IT Services
China Overtakes The US To Bag Most Awards In AI City Challenge
- By Avi Gopani
Chinese tech giants Alibaba & Baidu have bagged most awards in the 2021 AI City Challenge. The challenge was created four years ago to incentivise research and development in intelligent video analysis for use cases in smart cities and assess tasks where the level of performance is enough to drive real-world adoption.
The US companies and universities dominated the first couple of years of the AI city challenge sweeping most of the awards. However, China, with half of the world’s smart cities, has been setting the bar at the challenge lately.
China’s AI growth
The results reflect the commitment of Chinese government to dominate the technology race. Hundreds of Chinese cities have AI based pilot programs. Currently, China is working on about 800 smart city pilot programs wi
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Avi Gopani
Avi Gopani is a technology journalist that seeks to analyse industry trends and developments from an interdisciplinary perspective at Analytics India Magazine. Her articles chronicle cultural, political and social stories that are curated with a focus on the evolving technologies of artificial intelligence and data analytics.
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